| BURLAP | Coarse canvas cloth often used for sacking (6) |
| IKAT | From the Malay-Indonesian meaning "tie" or "bind", a traditional resist-dyeing technique for patterning cloth, often used for textiles or soft furnishings (4) |
| CHINO | Cotton-twill cloth, often used for trousers |
| BAIZE | Coarse felt-like cloth often used on billiard tables (5) |
| LOOTER | Person responsible for sacking John replaces lawyers in exchange |
| ALLUDE | Suggest everyone due for sacking |
| JUTE | Fibre used for sacking (4) |
| SISAL | Used for sacking a half-sister at loggerheads |
| TENT | From "stretch", word for a big top, bivvy, marquee, yurt or other such portable shelter of canvas, cloth or skin stretched tight on poles (4) |
| DUCK | A quick dip or bob of one's head, like a female mallard diving for bread; or, canvas cloth of cotton/linen thread (4) |
| HESSIAN | Cloth for sacking (7) |
| FIRINGLINE | Front of the queue for sacking? (6,4) |
| TENTS | Portable shelters or dwellings of canvas, cloth, etc. supported by poles |
| PLAID | Cloth, often tartan, part of Highland dress (5) |
| TWEED | Thick woollen cloth often woven from different coloured threads (5) |
| RAG | Cleaner's cloth, often |
| DYER | Worker in cloth often runs from laundromat machine |
| HENEEDEDAPOO | Stated reason for sacking a baker? The man had to go! (2,6,1,3) |
| CORCHORUS | What may be needed for sacking my singers |
| PLUNDERAGE | Case of professional too young for sacking |
